HTMLy

HTMLy is an open source databaseless blogging platform prioritizing simplicity and speed (Flat-File Blog). And because HTMLy also manage the contents, then it can be referred as a Flat-File CMS.

You do not need to use a VPS to run HTMLy, fairly shared hosting or even a free hosting as long as those hosting already support at least PHP 5.3.

Features

Admin panel
Markdown editor with live preview
Categorization with tags (multi tags support)
Static pages Eg. for contact page
Meta canonical, description, and rich snippets for SEO
Pagination
Author page
Multi author support
Social links
Disqus Comments (optional)
Facebook Comments (optional)
Google Analytics
Built-in search
Related posts
Per post navigation (previous and next post)
Body class for easy theming
Breadcrumb
Archive page (by year, year-month, or year-month-day)
JSON API
OPML
RSS Feed
RSS 2.0 Importer (basic)
Sitemap.xml
Archive and tag cloud widget
SEO friendly URLs
Teaser thumbnail for images and Youtube videos
Responsive design
Lightbox
User role
Online backup
File cache

Requirements

HTMLy requires PHP 5.3 or greater.

Installations

Download the latest version, extract it, then upload the extracted files to your server. Make sure the installation folder is writeable by your server.

Configurations

Rename config.ini.example inside config folder to config.ini or you can create it one than change the site settings there, create YourUsername.ini inside config/users folder or simply rename the username.ini.example, write down your password there.

password = YourPassword

HTMLy support admin user role either, simply add the following to your choosen user:

role = admin

Admin role can edit/delete all users posts.

You can login to admin panel at www.example.com/login.

Lighttpd

Here a example configuration

$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/config" {
  url.access-deny = ( "" )
}
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/system/includes" {
  url.access-deny = ( "" )
}
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/system/admin/views" {
  url.access-deny = ( "" )
}

url.rewrite-once = (
  "^/(themes|system|vendor)/(.*)" => "$0",
  "^/(.*\.php)" => "$0",

  # Everything else is handles by htmly
  "^/(.*)$" => "/index.php/$1"
)

Nginx

Here a basic configuration for nginx.

server {
  listen 80;

  server_name example.com www.example.com;
  root /usr/share/nginx/html;

  access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
  error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log error;

  index index.php;

  location ~ /config/ {
     deny all;
  }

  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
  }

  location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME   $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
  }
}

Both Online or Offline

In addition by using the built-in editor in the admin panel, you can also write it offline and then upload them into content/username/blog folder (the username must match with YourUsername.ini above).

For static pages you can upload it to content/static folder.

File Naming Convention

When you write a blog post and save it via the admin panel, HTMLy automatically create a .md file extension with the following name, example:

2014-01-31-12-56-40_tag1,tag2,tag3_databaseless-blogging-platform-flat-file-blog.md

Here's the explanation (separated by an underscore):

2014-01-31-12-56-40 is the published date. The date format is yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss
tag1,tag2,tag3 is the tag, separated by comma
databaseless-blogging-platform-flat-file-blog is the URL

For static pages, we use the following format:

about.md

That is means if about is the URL.

So if you write it offline then you must naming the .md file as above.

Content Title

If you write it offline, for the title of the post you need to add a title in the following format:

<!--t Here is the post title t-->

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2 etc.

So wrap the title with HTML comment with t for both side.

Demo

Visit a real blog powered by HTMLy at Danlogs.

Credit

People who give references and inspiration for HTMLy:

Martin Angelov

Contribute

Fork and edit
Submit pull request for consideration

Copyright / License

For copyright notice please read COPYRIGHT.txt. HTMLy licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2.0 (or later).

MrDJK / htmly